Data Architect

Job Title:        Data Architect
Location:        Flexible Worker – UK based with nearest Babcock Hub as contractual location
Compensation:    Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:        Full time / Permanent
Role ID:        SF56085

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Data Architect at one our Babcock Hubs.

The role
As a Data Architect, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will join an established but ever-growing team at an exciting time within our Corporate Services Function. You’ll work within a team of architects providing support to core infrastructure and business led projects, providing specific data architecture expertise to solution and enterprise architects.

Day to day, you’ll be an integral member of the Architecture team and will be responsible for ensuring that all initiatives explicitly consider data as part of their approach and that all elements of the data lifecycle are adequately provisioned. You will also be expected to be involved in the design and implementation of the enterprise data strategy, ensuring the strategy supports the current and future business needs. Your role will involve collaborating with Business and IT stakeholders at all levels to ensure the enterprise data strategy and associated implementation is adding value to the business. Further responsibilities include:

• Develop and evolve the enterprise data strategy to support delivery of corporate objectives 
• Be a key stakeholder and advisor in all new strategic data initiatives and ensure alignment to the enterprise data strategy 
• Be a key influencer to core system development decisions around the storage, integration, aggregation and access of data across the Picasso landscape 
• Contribute to creating a framework of principles to ensure data integrity across the business including but not limited to ERP, BI, Data warehouse, external interfaces etc
• Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability to achieve value for money and reduce risk

This role is 37.5 hours per week 

Essential experience of the Data Architect:

• Data/system architect with demonstrable knowledge and experience of contributing to technical solutions for large scale complex projects
• Modelling and graphic representations 
• Architecting data solution across hybrid cloud on premise data platforms
• A comprehensive understanding of data warehousing and data transformation, extract, transform and load processes and the supporting technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Data Lake and other analytics products 
• Excellent problem solving and data modelling skills logical, physical, sematic and integration models including normalisation, OLAP / OLTP principles and entity relationship analysis

Qualifications for the Data Architect:

• Technical qualifications e.g MCSE, CCNA, TOGAF

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits
Generous holiday allowance 
Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
Employee share scheme 
Employee shopping savings portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 28/03/2024

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